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over 400 examples (reproduced as Autotypes, Photographs, Etchings, and 

 Oil Paintings) of Kaphael's works, contributed by the Authorities of 

 the Liverpool University, Mr. Enoch Harvey, Mr. Philip Henry Rathbone, 

 Mr. A. B. Dunsford, Messrs. Elkington & Co., and the Liverpool Corpo- 

 ration. These were classed under the Umbrian, Florentine, and Roman 

 periods. 



The Exhibition was collected and arranged by Professor Conway, who 

 also prepared a Catalogue which contains not only the titles of the works 

 exhibited, but a complete list of all the Artist's known works. 



The Liver Society of Artists held their Exhibition in the Gallery during 

 the month of April, and during May and June, the Liverpool Society of 

 Water-Colour Painters also held their Exhibition in the Gallery. 



The Committee contributed to the Liverpool Jubilee Exhibition a 

 collection of 18 models of Castles, Abbeys, &c. 



The Committee lent the following pictures during the year : — 



To the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition: — " Julian the Apostate," by E. 

 Armitage, k.a. ; "Saving the Guns," by R. Caton Woodville; "The 

 Evening of the Battle of Waterloo," by Ernest Crofts, A.R.A. ; and "The 

 Castle Rock, Cumberland," by Clarence Whaite, R. W. S. 



The following pictures were lent to the Jubilee Exhibition at Saltaire : — 

 " Trial of the Earl of Strafford." by W. Fisk; " Nature's Mirror, by 

 Peter Ghent : " The Ante-Chamber at Whitehall during the last moments 

 of Charles II," by E. M. Ward, R.A. 



The Committee also at the request of the Artist contributed a pictui-e 

 by W. L. Picknell, entitled " Wintry March," to the American Exhibition, 

 held in London. 



The Arts Committee at Manchester reciprocated by lending to the 

 Committee : — 



" The Good Samaritan," by G. F. Watts, R.A. ; " The Ides of March," 

 by E. J. Poynter, r.a. ; and " Eve Tempted," by R. Spencer Stanhope. 



Two Soirees were held during the year. 



The Congress of the British Archaeological Association, holding their 

 meeting in Liverpool, in August, were invited by the Committee on the 

 J 9th of that month to a Conversazione, which was largely attended. 



